Winds whip California fires as they spread south

Unrelenting winds fanned towering flames Friday in southern California, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee multiple devastating fires in the Los Angeles area and new outbreaks near San Diego. Hundreds of structures including multi-million dollar mansions have been destroyed as thousands of firefighters battle wind-fueled wildfires on six different fronts. “I’ve never seen anything like this and I’ve lived here 20 years,” Judy Herman, 76, told AFP.